Stigma

Directed by Chaminda Ilukwela

With Sulochana Akalanka, Nita Fernando, Dilhani Ekanayake, Cletus Mendis and Akalanka Prabashwara

The movie opens up with an accidental death of a 30 years old youth. At the autopsy, investigators find his identity card which belongs to ‘Revatha the Buddhist monk’. It stirs the hornet’s nest in the neighborhood where Revatha used to live, as at the time of his death, he had disrobed. Therefore, parishioners of his temple object to bringing his body to the temple and holding a monk’s funeral. Then the movie begins to reveal the backstory till his death.